About Laura Purdy

Laura Purdy is a bioethicist, feminist philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Wells College, where she served on the faculty for more than three decades. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Hypatia and of Bioethics and has been an active member of FAB for many years. She is the author of six books including Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics [co-edited with Helen B. Holmes], Reproducing Persons, and In Their Best Interest? The Case against Equal Rights for Children.

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Editor’s Note: We have had a few blogs that reference The Handmaid’s Tale since Season 1 of the Hulu series began in 2017, and one that did so several years ago which had a lively discussion in the comments.  Here, Laura … Continue reading

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“First Gene Therapy Drug Sets Million-Euro Price Record”

This news item underlines one of the most urgent issues raised by commodified drug development and marketing, and it deserves far more attention and analysis than I am able to provide here. It has been known for sometime that drug prices … Continue reading

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“Selling U.S. Citizenship”??

“Obama Administration Allows Fertility Clinics to Sell US Citizenship” cries one website.[1] At issue is, allegedly, not only infertility clinics making big bucks selling U.S. citizenship for babies gestated by American citizens, but access to the entire U.S. benefits system—including … Continue reading

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“Why Are So Many Women Dying from Ebola?

Studies show that infectious disease often affects one gender more than another — but that knowledge isn’t being put into practice…. On Aug. 14, the Washington Post reported that across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone collectively, women have comprised 55 … Continue reading

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“Journalistic Malpractice: The Media Enables the Right-Wing Politicization of Science”

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“Playing Hardball Against Women’s Rights: The Holy See At The UN”

Who needs facts or even common human decency if you have power? The Holy See’s modus operandi has been to impose its conservative social ideology at the UN via relentless pressure—evident ever since it gained semi-official standing there in 1964. … Continue reading

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“Dead Babies and Utah’s Carbon Bomb”

Where are ‘pro-lifers’ when you need them? … Continue reading

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It’s About Testosterone?

From the New York Times It’s about testosterone? Hardly. Some athletic authorities are now requiring  women athletes to have their clitorises partially removed if their testosterone is “too high”? On the grounds that high testosterone is an unfair advantage? Even … Continue reading

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The Fat Drug

Hard to know where to start on this issue, given all the ethical ramifications, starting with questions about informed consent in the experiments on humans, the failure of government There cialis overnight delivery are many different types of heart diseases. … Continue reading

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Not enough being hooked and killed by this product??

“Even More Addictive Because even the best of workplaces have everyday cheap pfizer viagra annoyances and aggravations. In a study, 57% of men that had bypass surgery and 64% of men are hospitalized for having affected by heart attack and … Continue reading

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Read this and weep…

Read This and Weep. . . Assuming that this is an accurate story–and determining that would be part of the job–what should bioethics’ response be? I’m not sure there’s anything distinctively feminist at issue here, except insofar as we are … Continue reading

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CFP: Vol. 9, No. 3: “Health and Ecological Destruction: Fracking and Beyond”

The deadline for submission for this issue is September 1, 2015. Laura Purdy and Wendy Lynne Lee “Which questions moral philosophers choose to study—and choose not to study—is itself a moral issue,” wrote Virginia Warren in her groundbreaking 1979 article. … Continue reading

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